Chee Soon Juan v PP

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date21 May 2012
Date21 May 2012
Docket NumberMagistrate's Appeals Nos 373, 374, 375, 378 and 380 of 2010
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
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3 cases
  • Public Prosecutor v Ong Jun Yong
    • Singapore
    • Magistrates' Court (Singapore)
    • 14 Junio 2022
    ...principle of statutory interpretation: Public Prosecutor v Low Kok Heng [2007] 4 SLR(R) 183 at [57]; Chee Soon Juan v Public Prosecutor [2012] 3 SLR 648 at [53] – [57]; Bank of England v Vagliano Brothers [1891] AC 107 at 145; Public Prosecutor v Alang Mat Nasir bin Anjang Talib [1938] MLJ ......
  • Chua Hock Soon James v PP
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 26 Septiembre 2017
    ...(see Oliver Jones, Bennion on Statutory Interpretation: A Code (LexisNexis, 6th Ed, 2013) at p 22).115 In Chee Soon Juan and others v PP [2012] 3 SLR 648 (“Chee Soon Juan”), the appellant was charged with the offence of participating in an assembly when he ought reasonably to have known tha......
  • Public Prosecutor v Nancy Tan Mee Khim
    • Singapore
    • District Court (Singapore)
    • 7 Octubre 2020
    ...apply where the offence involves mistake of law and that whether a CMSL was required was indeed a matter of law. In Chee Soon Juan v PP [2012] SGHC 109 (“Chee Soon Juan”) at [52], it was observed that, despite some academic criticism, “the existence of the legal maxim ignorance of the law i......
1 books & journal articles
  • Criminal Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2012, December 2012
    • 1 Diciembre 2012
    ...trade—offs between the individual and the community should be weighed. Defences Mistake of law 13.43 Chee Soon Juan v Public Prosecutor[2012] 3 SLR 648 (‘Chee Soon Juan v PP’) involved six appellants who were each convicted of an offence under r 5 of the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order......

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